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It being Wednesday, we will now have the singing of the national anthem led today by the hon. member for Thunder Bay—Superior North.
[Members sang the national anthem]
House of Commons Hansard #140 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was yea.
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker Conservative Andrew Scheer
It being Wednesday, we will now have the singing of the national anthem led today by the hon. member for Thunder Bay—Superior North.
[Members sang the national anthem]
The EnvironmentStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Elizabeth May Green Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, I had the enormous honour earlier today to meet with Bonnie and Gord Johnston of Sundre, Alberta. They came to Ottawa to plead with members of Parliament to remember that when a pipeline leaks it is not just the environment that is devastated, it is families and it is lives.
Gord Johnston grew up on the 23 hectares where his family lives on the banks of the Red Deer River. Their beautiful river became a flood of oil that has now contaminated their entire property. Bonnie and Gord were in tears as they pleaded with members of Parliament to bear in mind what happens when environmental regulations are weakened.
In their own words, and they asked me to convey this today, they said, "Please, Mr. Prime Minister, you need to stop and think. The environment is where we live".
Cellular TowersStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Terence Young Conservative Oakville, ON
Mr. Speaker, cellular telephones and cellular telephone antennae emit radio frequency, electromagnetic radiation that the World Health Organization has classified as possibly carcinogenic. That is why Apple and RIM warn their customers to not touch BlackBerrys and iPhones during a call and to keep these devices at least 15 millimetres from their bodies. Health Canada tells parents to reduce children's EMR exposure with shorter telephone calls, hands-free devices and text messaging because children are more sensitive.
The people of Oakville do not want cellular antennae that broadcast electromagnetic radiation located near their homes, schools, day care centres or health care facilities. We have good coverage for phone calls and do not need cellular towers everywhere to broadcast hockey games to hand-held devices in every room.
Rogers and Telus are working with local residents but Bell Canada has placed powerful antennae 11 metres from a child's bedroom and over the heads of our firefighters and refuses to move them. This is intolerable. I would tell the president of Bell Canada, Mr. George Cope, to tear down those antennae.
Les Grands Rangs Co-operativeStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Annick Papillon NDP Québec, QC
Mr. Speaker, Thursday, June 14 will mark the official opening of the grocery and deli of the Les Grands Rangs co-operative on Saint-Joseph Street, in the heart of the Saint-Roch neighbourhood, in the riding of Québec.
The original idea was to create a model for building bridges between rural and urban areas, and between producers and consumers. The co-operative's mission is to bring together various artisan producers of local agri-food and agroforestry products from the greater Quebec City region and other surrounding regions.
The new co-operative will allow for knowledge transfer among generations, thus helping to preserve heritage and ensure the future of farming. This networking between producers, users and the public will contribute to socio-economic development, while respecting sustainable development, equity and local traditions, as well as ties to the territory and community.
Les Grands Rangs co-operative is a powerful symbol for building a local, collective, united economy that respects our environment. Let us celebrate the knowledge of our producers and put some Quebec on your plate.
Canada-Russia RelationsStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Mark Adler Conservative York Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Russia. It was also the 22nd anniversary of Russia Day when the declaration declaring Russia state sovereignty was signed in 1990.
I am proud to speak to the enormous contributions Russians have made to our country. Over half a million Russians have chosen Canada as their home. As the representative of the riding with the largest number of Russian speaking people in Canada, I have had the privilege to participate in the richness, complexity and beauty of the Russian culture first-hand.
On the commercial front, our bilateral relationship means jobs for Canadians. Just last wee, our Minister of International Trade led a successful trade mission to Moscow and St. Petersburg with a delegation of Canadian companies with an eye to increasing the $2.7 billion worth of bilateral trade that currently exists between our two countries.
We all know that trade means jobs, growth and long-term prosperity, which we on this side of the House are committed to. I wish our Russian friends Pozdravliau S Dnem Nezavisimosti.
International Year of Co-operativesStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Mr. Speaker, Corporate Knights is a respected quarterly magazine which, for 11 years, has been publishing the list of best 50 corporate citizens of Canada. To do so, it uses 11 indicators that measure social and environmental performance and corporate governance.
The top three companies this year are: Le Groupe Desjardins, Vancouver City Savings Credit Union and the Co-operators Group. It is fitting that in this, the International Year of Co-operatives, the three leading corporate citizens in Canada are co-ops.
Monique Leroux, the chair of the board, president and CEO of Le Groupe Desjardins, had this to say, "This speaks volumes about our 'cooperative DNA'. As organizations, we're rooted in our communities, dedicated to our people and the environment, and managed with a view to long-term development."
As well, all three companies are led by women: Monique Leroux for Desjardins; Tamara Vrooman, CEO of Vancity; and Kathy Bardswick, president and CEO of the Co-operators Group Limited.
Here also, the co-ops are truly leading the way.
Personal AchievementsStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Ted Opitz Conservative Etobicoke Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the achievements of two remarkable constituents from my riding of Etobicoke Centre. The first is Johanne Fisch, who has, for the past 30 years, planted a tree in Broadacres Park on Earth Day. In 2004, he incorporated his organization, Open Flag Planet Earth, whose objectives are to educate the public on the preserving the environment and to host an open house in green space annually.
I admire and I congratulate Johanne on his commitment to the environment.
I also congratulate Brittany MacLean, a grade 12 student in Etobicoke Centre. On March 27, Brittany competed in Canada's Olympic trials and won the 400-metre freestyle event. Her time of 4 minutes and 6.8 seconds not only broke her personal best but also beat the Canadian record which has stood since 2005. Most remarkably, her win qualified her for the London Olympics. I look forward to cheering her on this summer.
I congratulate both Johanne and Brittany on their personal achievements. I am proud of the exceptional residents who call Etobicoke Centre their home and who I have the honour to represent.
Citizenship and ImmigrationStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Matthew Kellway NDP Beaches—East York, ON
Mr. Speaker, we know there are skill shortages in this country and yet the government has hit the delete button on about 300,000 skilled worker applications. It is shoddy public administration, economic mismanagement and is callous.
It has also prompted a number of visits to my office from constituents, including one whose sister and family have been in the queue since 2006. She wrote to me stating, "As a landed immigrant and now a proud Canadian Citizen, I am absolutely devastated to hear about the proposal of handing back my sister's application...[along] with their future dreams and opportunities of a better life for themselves and their children in Canada.
"I cannot believe it has come to this...this is not the Canada we immigrated to. I am left with a heavy heart and an emptiness in the pit of my stomach, and the deep sadness for why I chose to come to Canada and call it home. This is not what Canada stands for".
Indeed, it is not.
Child Health InitiativesStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Kellie Leitch Conservative Simcoe—Grey, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise today to speak to an important organization that helps raise awareness for the health of Canadian children and youth, the sandbox project.
The main goal of this charity is to make Canada the healthiest place on earth for a child to grow up in. With a focus on anti-obesity strategies, injury prevention, children's mental health and the environment, the Sandbox project's ambitious but achievable goal is to make measurable progress against these health issues through collaboration.
In an effort to raise awareness about the importance of child health initiatives, today this organization has the world's largest sandbox here in Ottawa. Elementary school students from across Ottawa were joined by ministers, members of Parliament, NGOs, as well as industry, media and academic leaders to participate in sandcastle building. It was a great event. I especially thank my fellow members of this House who came out and generously gave of their time to participate in this event.
I encourage every member to learn more about this organization at sandboxproject.ca. I know the health and well-being of Canada's children and youth is an important priority for every member of Parliament as this generation represents our future.
Trinidad and TobagoStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Joe Daniel Conservative Don Valley East, ON
Mr. Speaker, I stand before this House to congratulate the nation of Trinidad and Tobago on its 50th anniversary of independence. Trinidad and Tobago over the years has developed a great relationship with Canada.
Recently, our Governor General, His Excellency David Johnston, was in Trinidad and Tobago to officially convey good wishes on behalf of the people of Canada. While he was there, he shared his great wisdom by addressing the faculty of the University of the West Indies.
Canada is privileged to have a community of people who are from Trinidadian descent, some of whom live in my riding of Don Valley East. I am also pleased to say that my riding of Don Valley East has benefited from their hard work, dedication and contributions to Canada.
I ask all members of this House to join me in congratulating His Excellency Phillip Buxo, the high commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago, and his delegation on this 50th anniversary. May the future bring growth and prosperity to the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
Bill C-38Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Jasbir Sandhu NDP Surrey North, BC
Mr. Speaker, today all members of this House will begin voting on amendments put forward by New Democrat colleagues and other opposition members of this House to delete sections from and to attempt to stop this grossly undemocratic Conservative Trojan Horse budget bill.
People from across this country and in my riding of Surrey North are outraged that the Conservatives are trying to sneak through hundreds of sweeping changes, including cutting OAS, environmental assessment and fish habitat protection.
This is an attack on democracy that is masquerading as a budget bill. I know people are outraged because, unlike the Conservatives, the New Democrats went out and listened to the concerns of the Canadians and they are speaking out in incredible numbers against this bill. We are fighting on their behalf inside and outside of the House.
Today I am asking Conservative members to do the right thing and vote to respect the will of Canadians and the basic principles of democracy.
Foreign AffairsStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
David Sweet Conservative Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON
Mr. Speaker, Canada strongly condemns the attacks Sunday on churches in Plateau and Borno states, Nigeria, where at least six people were killed and many more were injured. The terrorist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for both attacks. We are deeply saddened to see that Nigerians gathering to practise their faith have again become the target of terrorist acts.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs recently met with his Nigerian counterpart to reaffirm that Canada stands in solidarity with the government and people of Nigeria in their fight against terrorism. Canada urges all people in Nigeria to work with the Nigerian government to counter extremism and terrorism, and bring to justice those responsible for these reprehensible crimes.
Last, we pray for the safety of all innocent Nigerian women, men and children. God bless Nigeria and God bless Canada.
Pay EquityStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Djaouida Sellah NDP Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC
Mr. Speaker, as chair of the NDP women's caucus, today, I would like to express our deep indignation over the disastrous consequences that Bill C-38, a real Trojan Horse, will have in many areas of gender equality in Canada.
Cuts to old age security and employment insurance and the elimination of the Canadian Women's Health Network and the National Aboriginal Health Organization will have a greater impact on women than on men.
Equality is not a priority for this government. Clause 602 of Bill C-38 eliminates federal contractors' obligation to respect pay equity. This will have serious consequences for women's access to employment.
I am proud that the NDP continues to work for Canadian women so that gender equality is not just wishful thinking but a reality.
New Democratic Party of CanadaStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Deepak Obhrai Conservative Calgary East, AB
Mr. Speaker, our government has a plan to keep Canada's economic recovery on track. Unfortunately, the NDP has opposed and attempted to delay that plan at every turn. Sadly, this comes as no surprise from a party that is anti-jobs, anti-trade and anti-economic growth.
NDP members have opposed our pro-trade plan by voting against free trade agreements that we have brought before this House. They also, shamefully, sent an anti-trade delegation to the U.S. to advocate against Canadian jobs. The NDP's anti-jobs and anti-growth views were further revealed when the NDP leader called Canada's resource industries a disease.
When will the NDP members realize that they should be standing with us to support jobs and economic growth instead of against Canadian jobs?
Religious FreedomStatements By Members
2:20 p.m.
Irwin Cotler Liberal Mount Royal, QC
Mr. Speaker, I rise to commend the National Assembly of Quebec on its unanimous motion commemorating the 180th anniversary of a law.
This law, which was passed unanimously, granted Jews equality and complete political and religious emancipation.
This move to grant Quebec Jews full civil and political equality was one of the first of its kind, arising out the case of Ezekiel Hart, a Jew from Trois-Rivières elected to l'Assemblée nationale, but twice prevented from sitting solely because of his faith.
We must always remember our history, our heritage and the fight for equality.
The 1832 emancipation of Quebec's Jews was a landmark step in the struggle for freedom and justice for all.
This was a significant milestone in the fight for minority and human rights.
I invite all members of the House to join me in celebrating his most historic occasion.
We remember.
International CooperationStatements By Members
2:20 p.m.
Newmarket—Aurora Ontario
Lois Brown ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to draw attention to the recent release of CIDA's Development for Results 2010-11 report.
This report contains compelling stories that highlight our government's results in developing countries and speak to the value Canadians share in making a difference in the lives of those who count on, and benefit from, Canada's support. These results include building or renovating 110 health facilities in Sudan, treating more than 17,000 children against AIDS in Mozambique, helping to feed 11 million people affected by famine in East Africa, giving one million Tanzanians access to credit, helping train 1,000 teachers in Colombia, and delivering hot meals to 400,000 boys and girls in Haiti.
I encourage my colleagues and citizens in all corners of the country to read the moving stories in Development for Results 2010-11 to find out exactly how Canada's aid is making a real difference.
Conservative Party of CanadaStatements By Members
2:20 p.m.
Claude Gravelle NDP Nickel Belt, ON
Mr. Speaker, Conservative backbenchers are slowly falling out of favour with the PMO. They dare to speak the truth. The Trojan Horse budget bill is dividing their caucus.
A couple of weeks ago, the member for Kootenay—Columbia told constituents that the massive bill should be divided. Now, we find out that the member for Dufferin—Caledon is trying to get an environmental assessment for the proposed megaquarry in his riding, but the Minister of the Environment has shot him and his constituents down.
Whether it is because of an environmental assessment, cuts to OAS, EI, food safety or any of the other attacks, Canadians want this Trojan Horse budget bill stopped.
We salute these two brave Conservative backbenchers. We hope the PMO will allow them to speak their minds and represent their constituents. When the voting starts, we hope they will back up their words with action and vote with their hearts.
The BudgetStatements By Members
June 13th, 2012 / 2:20 p.m.
John Carmichael Conservative Don Valley West, ON
Mr. Speaker, our government's top priority is creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity. Economic action plan 2012 is the next step in our plan to create jobs across this great country.
Tonight, as we vote into the early hours of the morning on our economic action plan, I urge the opposition members to put aside the interests of their big union bosses and activist allies and think about the priorities that matter most to Canadians. They should put aside their parliamentary games and focus on growth for our economy. The lengthy voting tonight will bring to an end a sad chapter of ineffectiveness for the opposition: no witness to back up their opinions at committee, failing to even show up and blocking the passage of an important bill.
The opposition members should put away their ineffective games and support Canada's economic action plan 2012, a plan for jobs, growth and long-term prosperity.
SyriaOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Outremont Québec
Thomas Mulcair NDPLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, we have all witnessed the atrocities committed against the Syrian people by the Assad regime, which is now carrying out targeted attacks on children.
Can the Prime Minister update Canadians on diplomatic efforts undertaken in response to the Syrian crisis, especially diplomatic efforts toward Russia, which remains a key Syrian ally?
SyriaOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Stephen Harper ConservativePrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question.
The actions of the Syrian regime and the violence against its own citizens are completely unacceptable.
We have been working very hard, Mr. Speaker, as you know, with our allies to impose binding sanctions with other United Nations actors through the UN Arab League peace initiative. We encourage all to work together to implement that initiative. We encourage Russia and others to join with us to apply binding sanctions against what is a murderous regime. This is unacceptable to Canadians and, I believe, to the broader international community.
The EnvironmentOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Outremont Québec
Thomas Mulcair NDPLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, I thank the Prime Minister.
Let us get back to the mammoth budget bill. Today, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy released a scathing report on the Conservatives' failure to take action on climate change.
The report is clear: Canada will not meet its greenhouse gas reductions target and, by not taking action now, the Conservatives will force future generations to pay a high price.
Is the real reason why the Prime Minister is dismantling the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy that it is doing its job well and condemning the Conservative government's failures in environmental policy?
The EnvironmentOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Stephen Harper ConservativePrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, I note that the report indicates that the government made considerable progress last year with respect to its targets.
There are obviously other actions to be considered. However, the reality is that emissions in Canada were increasing rapidly when this government came to power. Today, however, our greenhouse gas emissions are declining. We intend to continue down this path.
The EnvironmentOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Outremont Québec
Thomas Mulcair NDPLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has already admitted that his Trojan Horse budget will be used to slash funding for any group that has the gall to disagree with Conservative policy. That apparently includes the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy because it gives him facts that contradict the decisions he has already made.
Last year, the Supreme Court had to order the Prime Minister to practise fact-based decision making, not decision-based fact making. Why does he keep getting it wrong?
The EnvironmentOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Stephen Harper ConservativePrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, as the report notes, the Government of Canada has made increased progress toward its commitments to the actions it has undertaken over the past year. The government will look at additional actions. The reality, as I said before, is that when this government came to office, the emissions of greenhouse gases were increasing rapidly. Under this government, emissions of greenhouse gases have actually begun to decline and this government has done that while our economy continues to grow. We have every intention of continuing down this path.
Employment InsuranceOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Peggy Nash NDP Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are dismantling employment insurance without even consulting those who contribute to it.
Thousands of women already have a hard time accessing EI. Two out of three women who lose their jobs are not eligible for employment insurance, and the Conservatives' Trojan Horse is only going to make matters worse.
When will the Conservatives start consulting workers instead of attacking them?


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Prof. Naoki Sakai
Present Full Professor with tenure, Departments of Asian Studies and of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, and in the Graduate Field of History and the Graduate Faculty of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
August 2009 Membership on Advisory Committee. The Flying University of Transnational Humanities, Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea
2002-2005 (Chair 2004-2005) The William Ripley Parker Prize Selection Committee in Modern Language Association of America
1996-2003 Founding Senior Editor, Editorial Collective, Traces, a Multi-lingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation
June and July 2002 Lecturer for the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University
Since 2000 Member of the Advisory Board: Postcolonial Studies, Oxford, UK
Since July 2000 Editorial Committee, Multitudes, Paris, France
Since 1993 Member of the Editorial Collective: Positions - east asia cultures critique, Duke University Press, Durham August 1979 – December 1983 M.A. and Ph.D., University of Chicago, Department of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations
June 1971 B. A. in Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters
Research Areas
Dislocation of the West, Philosophy and Imperial Nationalism
Function within the Center
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (May-July 2011)
Research project "Dislocation of the West; Philosophy and Imperial Nationalism"
Selected Publications
Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. 349 pages.
Japanese translation thereof. Translated by Saito Hajime Kawada Jun, Suehiro Miki, Noguchi Ryohei, and Hama Kunihiko. Shohan. ed. Tokyo: Ibunsha, 2002. 570 pages.
Korean translation thereof, Seoul: Greenbee Publishers, 2011 Forthcoming.
The Stillborn of the Japanese as Language and as Ethnos: "Japanese" History–Geopolitical Configuration (in Japanese, Shisan sareru Nihongo Nihonjin). Tokyo: Shin'yôsha, 1996. 300 pages.
Korean translation thereof from the Japanese. Translated by Yi Tuk-chae. Seoul: Moonhwa Kwahaksa, 2003. 285 pages.
The Problem Called Japanese Thought: Translation and Subjectivity (in Japanese, Nihon shisô toiu mondai) Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1997. 329 pages.
Translation and Subjectivity: On "Japan" and Cultural Nationalism. Public Worlds vol.3. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 231 pages.
Korean translation thereof from the English. Translated by Fujii Takeshi. Seoul: Yeesan, 2005. 376 pages.
Poiesis of Nationalism (in Korean from the English and Japaense). Translated by Yi Kyu-su, and Yi Yŏn-suk. Chʻopʻan. ed. Seoul: Changbi, 2003. 263 pages.
Japan/Image/the United States: The Community of Sympathy and Imperial Nationalisms (in Japanese, Nihon/Ime-ji/Beikoku). Tokyo: Seidosha, 2007. 309 pages.
Korean translation thereof. Seoul: Greenbee, 2008. 336 pages.
Hope and the Constitution (in Japanese, Kibô to Kenpô). Tokyo: Ibunsha, in May, 2008. 315 pages.
Korean translation thereof, Seoul: Greenbee, 2011 Forthcoming
Co-authored books
with Lim Jiehyun, Pride and Prejudice (in Korean, 오만과편견). Seoul: Humanist, 2003. 481 pages.
with Nishitani Osamu, The Destruction of "World History": Translation, Subjectivity, History (in Japanese, Sekaishi no Kaitai). Tokyo: Ibunsha, revised 2004. 374 pages.
Korean translation thereof from the Japanese.
Japanese translation thereof, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011. Forthcoming.
with Hyon Joo Yoo: Trans-Pacific Studies and US-Japan Complicity. In: Naoki Sakai, Hyon Joo Yoo (Hg.): The Transpacific Imagination - Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society. London, Singapore, New York: World Scientific Books 2012
Email naoki.sakai[at]cornell.edu
Lesung "Kultur und Übersetzung" mit Yoko Tawada und Naoki Sakai (Juni 2011) online ansehen/anhören

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I used to get over there much more than I do now… Our business is divided between the US and DE, so I'm over there at least 3-5 times a year.
I rarely get a chance to ride while I'm there, but I'm considering a break this summer. The hard part is taking that much time off. If I've already been in Berlin for the week on business, then the guys in NY need me back in the office. Adding another week to the trip just for "fun" is pushing it, and if I'm taking that much time off, then I had rather involve my family…
Berlin is a great city, but like all other cities, it helps to know someone there who can show you around. It's not where you are, but who you're with that counts. (If you think the Parisians have attitude, watch out for the Berliners!!!) Don't go for the architecture. While some of the castles survived, much of Berlin was flattened during the war. The new buildings were erected in haste. Anything with the original fa?ºade is sought after (but often rented by students).
Berlin could go up or down. I'm hoping for an up-tick.
Stephen Burns - 2007 R1200GS
BMW MOA Lifetime Member
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BMW MOA Lifetime Member
www.burnsmoto.com GS911 WIFI BMW Motorcycle Diagnostic Tool
The first message was just a weak excuse for toilet humour.
Bear in mind, I'm still on medication until the end of this week.
The Seattle underground tour perpetuates the urban myth that James Crapper invented the flushing toilet. He did not, there was a flushing toilet recorded as far back as Egyptian times. He invented the ballcock valve I think and it was just coincidence he was called crapper, as crap as we know it, had been used as a term many years prior to his birth. And, he wasn't knighted by Queen Victoria either...it's just for the tourists and is a load of.....
Here it is, and I didn't find this assignment elementary.
19 BMWMOA Nationals under my belt, and I have no idea what I am doing.
Uh, oh, I read my manual last night.
I didn't wear a necklace though.
19 BMWMOA Nationals under my belt, and I have no idea what I am doing.


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The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® series continues by remembering a trail-blazing student-athlete who opened the door for so many others.
The late Joe Gilliam Jr. was more than a football player to Tennessee State University; he was devoted to giving back to his institution and community. At an early aged Gilliam possessed athletic skills. During his years at Washington Junior high located in Nashville, TN he participated in track, tumbling, and basketball. In 1966, he was the starting quarterback at Pearl High School and led the team in the city's first season of integrated football.
Gilliam's father, Joe Gilliam Sr. was the defensive coordinator of the Tennessee State University Tigers for 20 years under Coach John Merritt Merritt. He became Head Coach of TSU Tigers in 1989 for four seasons. In 1990, he earned Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year. He passed on his talent and love for the game to his son, who grew up on the campus, helping his dad.
In 1970 and 1971 Gilliam was an AP All-American, National Black College Player of the Year, and was the starting quarterback for the Tigers during those years as well.
In 1971, Gilliam had 243 completions and 2,116 passing yards.
He was an 11th-round draft pick by the Steelers in 1972. Gilliam became a starter when several veterans, including quarterback Terry Bradshaw, went on strike in 1974. He kept the job for a brief time when Bradshaw and the others returned, leading the Steelers to a 4-1-1 record. Gilliam became the first African-American quarterback to start a regular-season NFL game. Gilliam retired from football in 1984 and was inducted into the American Football Association's Semi Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
At times Gilliam ran a football camp in Nashville, where he earned his nickname "Jefferson Street Joe" for the boulevard that runs by TSU.
Most knew because he was physically talented that he was going to be a pro football player. Throughout his life he showed others why he was a good quarterback and opened the door for African-American quarterbacks.
Check out some Gilliam highlights below:
The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® highlights some of the greatest moments in honor of Tennessee State's centennial celebration. A new moment will be released each weekday for a total of 100. These moments were chosen by the TSU 100 Moments committee, which consists of alums from various departments. TSU has so many great moments, not all can be represented in these 100.
Sports Information Assistant Alex Mitchell contributed to this article assisted by LaToya Poore.
Follow TSU Athletics on Facebook.com/TSUTigers and Twitter @TSU_Tigers.


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FOLK-SONGS:(Redirected from BALLADS, JEWISH.)
Songs or ballads originating and current among the common people, and illustrating the common life. Jewish folk-songs exist in languages and dialects other than Hebrew and Judæo-German; in Ladino, for instance. Traces of Hebrew folk-songs may be found in the Talmud. In Ta'an. 26b it is related that on the 15th of Ab and on the Day of Atonement the daughters of Jerusalem assembled in the vineyards to dance before young men, and sang:
"O young man, lift up thine eyes And look before you choose; Look not for beauty, But seek for good breeding. False is grace, and beauty is vain; A God-fearing woman is alone worthy of praise."
A fragment of a bridal song is recorded in Ket. 17a, where Rab Dimi says: "Thus they sing before a bride in the West":
"Her eye without kohl, Her face without paint, Her hair without curl, Yet a form full of grace."
A ballad of the narrative kind is the tale of the "Pious Man" (
"O young lady, will you not dance with me? I pray you will not take it amiss; Joyful I must be As long as I can. Your body, tender and young, Has wounded me in love, So have your eye serene And your crimson mouth; Close, then, your arms, Dear love, in mine And my heart will recover."
But this is more an adaptation than a ballad of Jewish origin.
The Judæo-German ballads current in the Slavonic countries lack no originality, though they may be adaptations from German folk-songs or translations and imitations of Slavonic compositions. Their spirit, however, is Jewish. For instance, the idea of remaining an old maid is a very sad one for a Russo-Jewish girl, and she sings:
"I sit upon a stone And I am seized with weeping; All girls do marry, But I remain alone."
Another begins:
"When the pleasant summer comes We are playing with sand; Where our dwelling is There is our land. Black cherries we are plucking, Red ones we let stand; Handsome lads we are taking, The ugly we let go!"
A ballad sung by children in some parts of Lithuania runs:
"Little boys and little girls Took one another; Ninth of Ab was wedding-day And no one came, Except Uncle Elijah With his long cloak, On his gray little horse, With his long beard."
- No less than 375 Yiddish folk-songs are contained in a collection by S. M. Ginzburg and P. S. Marek, Jüdische Volkslieder in Russland, St. Petersburg, 1901;
- others are given in Wiener's Popular Poetry of the Russian Jews, in Americana Germanica, vol. ii., No. 2, and in his History of Yiddish Literature, pp. 53 et seq., New York, 1899.
- A number of folk-songs in Ladino are given by Danon in R. E. J. xxxii. and xxxiii.;
- others are contained in Urquell, i. 206; vi. 28, 97, 158;
- Neue Folge, i. 45, 195; ii. 27.
- See Cradle Songs.
- See also Grunwald in Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Jüdischen Volkskunde, i. 50-67, ii. 37-49, iii. 9-22, iv. 124-130, viii. 154-157.


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Last night, House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) pulled his "Plan B" off the House floor because it lacked support from the House Republican caucus. The media is atwitter about Boehner's failure to control his troops, because they believe that President Obama has gained a tactical victory from it. But as a policy matter, it's far better that Republicans pass nothing, than pass a tax increase without any accompanying reform of our runaway spending on health-care entitlements. Indeed, despite all of the dramatic hyperbole about the "fiscal cliff," it's important to remember that going over the fiscal cliff will reduce the budget deficit by $503 billion in 2013, and $682 billion in 2014, relative to the "solutions" being bandied about on Capitol Hill. What's so terrible about that?
First, let's review the key components of what will happen in 2013 if Congress passes nothing this month.
Fiscal cliff component #1: Tax increases
The first aspect of the fiscal cliff is that taxes will go up. Income tax rates will revert back to the rates we had under President Clinton, leaving aside the additional $1.2 trillion in tax increases that Democrats passed under Obamacare. The top income tax rate will rise to 39.6 percent from 35 percent.
In addition, there are a number of other temporary tax provisions that will expire. Congress steps in every year to add an inflation adjustment to the Alternative Minimum Tax, because the AMT was not originally indexed to inflation. Without an inflation adjustment, more people will meet the income threshold for the AMT.
The deficit impact of extending these provisions, as people on both sides of the aisle want to do, is $330 billion in 2013, and $420 billion in 2014, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
If Congress were to extend all of these temporary tax provisions except for the lower tax rates on individuals with incomes above $200,000, as President Obama has advocated, the deficit impact would still be steep: $288 billion in 2013, and $382 billion in 2014.
Fiscal cliff component #2: Spending cuts
The second aspect of the fiscal cliff is that, if we go over it, spending will go down. Temporary payroll tax holidays, which reduce the Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes paid by employed individuals, will expire. In addition, the "temporary" extension of unemployment benefits undertaken during the recession will finally end. Continuing those temporary tax holidays and temporary unemployment benefits will increase the deficit by $108 billion in 2013, and $150 billion in 2014.
Importantly, Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate will take effect, reducing Medicare's payments to physicians by tens of billions of dollars. This provision, and a few others, will reduce federal spending by $40 billion in 2013, and $61 billion in 2014.
In addition, the Budget Control Act—the law passed last year during the epic debt-ceiling fight—automatically sequesters, or reduces, defense spending by $24 billion in 2013 and $51 billion in 2014.
Fiscal consolidation is inevitable; if not now, when?
Adding all of that up—and understanding that the payroll tax holiday more closely resembles economically impotent stimulus spending—kicking the can down the road comes at a steep fiscal cost. Now, I'm not in favor of going back to the Clinton tax rates. I believe that we should keep tax rates where they are, and reduce spending to get rid of our budget deficit. But President Obama has promised to veto any bill that does so. So what should responsible politicians do?
Remember that continuing to spend money we don't have isn't free. Deficit spending is a tax increase on our children and our grandchildren, and on people who have done the responsible thing and built up their savings. Going over the cliff means that the accounting gimmicks are over. No more "temporary" this and "temporary" that, so that Congress can pretend to be more fiscally responsible than it's actually being. Going over the cliff means that a broad swath of Americans will be required to pay for the enlarged government that they voted for in November. I don't think that's such a bad thing.
Much of the Republican behavior on Capitol Hill has been driven by fear of how the electorate will view Republicans if they don't continue to pass temporary tax cuts. But reducing the deficit will have to happen sometime, and whenever it happens, it is likely to have some negative impact on the economy. If Republicans don't want to reduce the deficit two years away from the next election, under a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate, they'll never reduce the deficit. The time to reduce the deficit is now, before a real fiscal crisis emerges, one that makes Greece look like a picnic.
By leaving town and letting America go over the fiscal cliff, Republicans don't have to vote for tax hikes that they justly oppose. Economically counterproductive spending, like the unemployment benefit extension, will come to an end. And an enormous amount of irresponsible accounting gimmickry, like the annual wrangling over the Medicare "doc fix," will end also.
And once Democrats gain their generational victory—returning to the Clinton-era tax rates—what case will they be able to make for even higher tax increases next year? Instead, the conversation will move back to what it always should have been about: the fact that the government spends too much taxpayer money, money it doesn't have.
A responsible alternative to doing nothing
Now all of this is not to say that there wasn't a better policy solution to be had. Raising Medicare's retirement age is far preferable to drastically cutting physician reimbursements, and would save more money over the long term. Across-the-board defense cuts are far clumsier than letting the Secretary of Defense propose his own optimized version of the same amount of spending cuts. And Mitt Romney's approach to tax reform—reducing loopholes and deductions in exchange for lower tax rates—would stimulate the economy and increase tax revenue.
Democrats have vowed to block such measures. But we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. A package along these lines should have formed the basis for Speaker Boehner's "Plan B," instead of the politically expedient tax hike he actually proposed, one that his own caucus could never support.
The key for Republicans is to also do the right thing in 2013. Democrats will come back in 2013 and attempt to pass all of their spending priorities, along with the Bush tax cuts for everyone making less than $200,000, and dare Republicans to oppose them. But Republicans should indeed oppose them, unless those tax cuts are accompanied by serious entitlement reform.
President Obama has insisted that he would be happy to go over the fiscal cliff in order to ensure that the wealthy pay more in taxes. The responsible thing for Republicans to do is to let him.
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UPDATE 1: On Twitter, Ryan Ellis, tax policy director at Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, writes that I shouldn't consider the payroll tax holiday to be a spending increase, because it's really a tax cut. From an accounting standpoint, it's hard to argue with him.
Elsewhere, Peter Suderman expresses skepticism about my cliffmanship. "After all," he writes, this is "the same GOP that just voted against a strategic tax hike that wasn't going to become law—despite the fact that it might have given them leverage to actually prevent real tax hikes from happening." Erick Erickson, however, is on my side.
UPDATE 2: One point I should have mentioned in the article is that the U.S. already has the most progressive tax code in the developed world. Boehner's "Plan B," by raising taxes on millionaires but maintaining temporary tax holidays for everyone else, would worsen this problem. We're never going to build consensus for entitlement reform if the burden of funding entitlements falls largely to 2 percent of the population.
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HOUSTON (AP) Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o won the Lombardi Award on Wednesday as college football's best lineman or linebacker.
Te'o, also a Heisman Trophy finalist, had 103 tackles and seven interceptions this year to help the undefeated Fighting Irish reach the BCS championship game against Alabama.
``It's the big dance,'' Te'o said about the title game. ``It is something that you dream about when you are little and for me to be in that game and playing against a real good Alabama team, it will be a perfect end to this chapter in my life.''
Te'o edged Alabama offensive lineman Barrett Jones, Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones and South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney for the award presented by the Rotary Club of Houston.
``You look at my highlights and you look at their highlights, I'm a big fan of their highlights,'' Te'o said.
``When you look at the company I am with - Jarvis, JC, Barrett - all guys that have proven themselves many, many times. For me to walk away with it, I am just very, very grateful. All of those guys are deserving of the trophy as well, so it is just a great experience and great opportunity for me.''
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It's not even close to spring yet here but I've got a few seeds in the dirt already. Some things will even be mature enough to eat before it's time to put stuff outside but there's nothing wrong with a little indoor gardening.
Something I'm excited to try is keyhole gardening. While water isn't really an issue here like most places that are touting keyhole gardens, getting good nourishment is.
Picture from HERE
Here are a few reasons keyhole gardening interests me:
- We already have a LARGE composting site but now that we have a push mower there are no grass clippings going in which was a large portion of our compost. I think the smaller compost area that leaks right into the garden sounds like a wonderful way to get the nutrients strait to where it's needed without the extra work and extra space.
- I have wanted a real raised bed since we moved here. The ground is very rocky making it hard to plant just about anything directly into it. We have plenty of good dirt thanks to our current compost pile and the wood chips that have pretty much turned themselves into mud under the swing sets. There will also be the chicken littler and the dead green stuff from last year that can all go into the garden.
- I'm really over the tires. Even at two tires high they are too short for this wonderfully tall Alaskan grass. Not to mention that because they are on a slanted hill they have started sliding off the bottom ones. If I was to do it again I would put a stake or something in the back to prevent sliding. The ones around the edge of the yard that are level are fine. Those I will keep for the bleeding hearts. I might consider modifying the idea of the key hole into just a circle with compost in the center if I found two big thick tractor tires to make the raised bed out of.
- The green house factor. I think the circle shape and the general dimensions would make an area easy to make into a green house. I could run pvc poles around the edges and across the top and then cover that in plastic sheeting making a dome. The raised bed would thaw quicker than the ground and with the sheeting I could be planting weeks earlier than usual! It sounds easy enough in theory anyway.
- If I make a netting the same way as I do the sheeting my garden might actually stand a chance with the chickens around!
Of course I'm not going to dump a bunch of money into this project, especially since what I have works just fine. We will probably reuse the fencing around our compost now and maybe even the tires? If we buy anything for this it will probably come from Habitat for Humanity.
Do any of you use keyhole gardening? Any thoughts? Tips?


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Diehard fans of the Child's Play franchise can finally stop holding their breath. A sixth entry in the murderous doll series has now been confirmed, with production set to begin this September. Last March a rumor surfaced that MGM was looking to reboot the serial killer franchise, but the studio quickly responded by saying no such plans were in the works. Not to fear, as the folks over at Moviehole have confirmed that Universal Home Entertainment is moving forward with a direct-to-DVD sequel entitled Curse of Chucky. Hit the jump for more.
Longtime fans of the franchise will be happy to know that, per Moviehole, Don Mancini will write, produce, and direct Curse of Chucky. Mancini has written every entry thus far, and directed 2004's Seed of Chucky, which taught us the lovely mechanics of doll reproduction. The logline for Curse of Chucky is as follows:
"Chucky arrives to wreck havoc within a family that's regrouped for a funeral. In the wake of her mother's passing, a young woman – in a wheelchair since birth – is forced to put up with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, the fearless Nica discovers the culprit might be a "strange doll" she was sent a couple of days earlier."
The plan with this new pic is to take the series back to its earlier, darker routes. The camp of Seed of Chucky and Bride of Chucky will be toned down considerably, with an emphasis on making the franchise scary again. That's really not a difficult task when you have a doll that looks as terrifying/insane as Chucky. Brad Dourif is returning yet again to voice the titular knife-wielder, but no other casting has been announced. I've only ever seen Child's Play 2 and Bride of Chucky (my childhood habit watching things out of order was strange), but I'm assuming longtime fans of the series will greet the confirmation of Curse of Chucky as welcome news. Watch trailers for all the previous films below.


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Session:Embedded is not special KR 2012
Session Details
- Event
- Kernel Recipes Paris 2012
- Date
- September 21, 2012
- Presenter
- David Woodhouse
- Organization
- Intel
- Slides
- https://kernel-recipes.org/?page_id=412
- Video
- https://kernel-recipes.org/?page_id=412
- Duration
- 35:48
How embedded Linux isn't so special, and most of the « embedded requirements » are also requirements in « big iron » too
David is an 'embedded maintainer' for the Linux kernel, and is a member of Intel's Open Source Technology Centre.
- Transcribed by
- Chris Dudding
- Verified by
0:00 - 1:00:
[Slide 1 - Embedded Linux and the mainline kernel]
>> DAVID WOODHOUSE: Um. I'm going to talk about "Embedded Linux" and what it means to me. Um. And how I dislike talking about "Embedded Linux" and the mainline kernel and how to work with it. Um. So.. [Speaker attempts to switch slide] Oh come on.. Please.. I'm going to talk about Open Office and how I hate it [Laughter from audience]
[Slide 2 - Where does Linux run?]
Wahey! So, Linux is everywhere. You see it on all kinds of devices: control devices, phones, all the way up to supercomputers, mainframes. Everybody runs Linux. Um. And we talk about "Embedded Linux" but what does it mean?
1:00 - 2:00:
You know.. Some people talk about "Embedded Linux" and include this kind of thing
[Speaker points to server image on slide]
It doesn't have a screen and a keyboard. It doesn't have a user with a graphical desktop. It must be embedded right?
Um.. So we use the term "Embedded Linux" to cover all manner of evils.
[Slide 3 - "Embedded"...?]
Um.. And a lot of the time when you hear sort of people in the linux development community talking about "Embedded Linux" mostly its a code word for stuff we don't want to have to care about. Um.. But its increasingly important. There are millions of android devices out there.. really.. you know.. pushing the focus on "Embedded Linux" so a lot more people admit that we have to care about it than used to admit this.
[Slide 4 - "Embedded"...?]
And.. You know.. We can consider a lot of things to be embedded even up to perhaps.. um.. devices like netbooks, ultrabooks, tablets. They aren't necessarily the.. um.. typical thing you might have thought of when you think of "Embedded Linux"
2:00 - 3:00:
But they have a lot of the same requirements. Um..
So what makes an embedded device? Is it the fact that it is headless? That it doesn't have a screen and a keyboard? Is it the fact that it is hand-held battery powered? Um.. Cares about power management deeply. Um.. Is it the physical size? I mean is it the constraints of the hardware? The RAM? The storage? The CPU? What else makes embedded?
[gesture to audience]
What do you think?
[inaudible answer from audience]
Dedicated usage? Yes, that's common. That's a common criteria
[answer from audience: non x86 processor]
Yes, so my Mac G5 is embedded? Actually it is, i moved a month ago, it is still packed in boxes. But, yeah. non x86. That's common. Anything else?
3:00 - 4:00:
[inaudible answer from audience]
[answer from audience: No X11]
No X11. Yes, that's true. So there are all kinds of things that people mean when they talk about "Embedded Linux". Um.. But there are a number of things that are quite common.
[Slide 5 - Embedded needs]
Power management is a very common requirement. When people talk about "Embedded Linux" often they think about power management. We need to conserve battery at all costs. We need to shutdown any circuitry which isn't in use right now. We need aggressive run-time power management.
We also think about fast startup. You take your phone out of your pocket, turn it on, there are legal requirements about how soon you must be able to make an emergency call and even in consumer devices outside that. You know.. You have to be able get a consumer experience quickly when they turn a device on. And that's one of the things that people care about a lot when they are talking about "Embedded Linux"
Again, headless operation, we covered this didn't we, no X11
4:00 - 5:00:
So, sometimes no user interface at all when its just an embedded control device. A router. Something like that. Um..
But we care about.. when we do have a user interface.. we care about having clean user interfaces. User interfaces that work on a small screen. That work with a touch screen and that's a common theme as well.
And we care about solid state storage. i'm not going to go [pauses to rephrase] Excuse me. I'm not going to go into any more detail about solid state storage so don't worry
[Slide 6 - Embedded needs]
So these are our needs, but they are not specific to "Embedded Linux". None of them are specific to "Embedded Linux". Everybody else needs these. There is actually a huge cross over between what we need in the "embedded" space and what people doing big iron want as well.
So let's take a look at power management
5:00 - 6:00:
[Slide 7 - Power Management]
We care about it, for embedded, for battery life. We want to make our devices last as long as possible before they shutdown.
[Slide 8 - Power Management]
In a data centre with huge racks of machines running a server farm, what do you care about? You care about power management because you don't want to be running at full cost.. You know.. Running everything at full tilt.. Paying for the electricity to run.. To waste heat.. Paying for the electricity to run your air conditioning at full blast to get the heat out of the building again so you're paying for it twice. Um.. And so actually the power management requirement all the requirement for runtime power management on linux systems. This isn't an embedded requirement at all. This is something everybody cares about and nowdays they are starting to realise they do. So we are seeing a lot more.. Um.. Acceptance of this kind of.. Um.. requirement
6:00 - 7:00:
and we have seen some very good work going in to the linux kernel recently on power management where maybe ten years ago there was a lot more resistance from upstream with people saying "oh we don't care about this kind of thing.. Why would we care".
[Slide 9 - Tickless operation]
So tickless operation. We heard about tickless.. um.. kernel earlier. Um.. And yes, this is really useful.. It gives us big power savings when we are running on battery.. When we don't have to wake up the CPU every thousanth of a second, hundredth of a second and do stuff, just to realise we can go back to sleep again. So, that's great. That's an embedded requirement.
[Slide 10 - Tickless operation]
But, its not just an embedded requirement. If you think about big farms of virtual servers.. the big hosting farms running lots of virtual machines they absolutely do not want every virtual machine every one of thousands of virtual machines waking up every millisecond
7:00 - 8:00:
and doing all this gratuitous stuff just to go back to sleep again because that means that the hypervisor has then got to run every single virtual machine.. And the cost of that is insane you can actually have.. You know.. The physical hardware.. The hypervisor doing nothing but running the timer tick on thousands of virtual machines and having no time to do any real work.
So again we have tickless operation which is not just an embedded requirement.. Its something that we need everywhere.
[Slide 11 - Fast boot]
Fast boot, so i talked about this. We have requirements for mobile phones that you have to be able to make calls within a certain amount of time and its just a very important user experience requirement for many.. You know.. Tablet devices, ultrabooks etc.
We care deeply about fast boot.
There has been a lot of work going into Linux distributions to boot fast, it gets you to the login screen or to the working environment as quickly as possible.
8:00 - 9:00:
[Slide 12 - Fast boot]
But, you might guess where I'm going with this, Um.. big iron needs it too.
If you've got a server hosting some service and you've promised 99.999% availability, how many seconds a year are you allowed to be down? That's less than one reboot. You need to reboot. [speaker re-phrases] If you have to reboot, you're eating into your uptime guarantee very very quickly so you need your servers to come back quickly. Um..
And so fast boot is not just embedded. Its for everybody. Everybody cares.
AUDIENCE>> Even on a netbook there?
>> DAVID WOODHOUSE: Yeah, everybody. Absolutely. Yeah, I care if I get up to the front here, boot up my laptop and you're waiting for 5 minutes while it boots up and I can't do my presentation. Or if you're waiting for 5 minutes while we try to drive Open Office. Um..
9:00 - 10:00:
Yeah, absolutely, everybody cares.
[Slide 13 - User interfaces]
There's nothing that is solely an embedded concern.
And user interfaces as well. There are some specific requirements for handheld touchscreens but really these also cross the board.
[Slide 14 - User interfaces]
We've seen.. Um.. i don't know if they are even very popular but a lot of the concepts do actually make a lot of sense and we've seen that user interface development driven to a certain extent by requirements elsewhere so, yeah.. netbook in particular needs the uncluttered user environment.
[Slide 15 - Solid state storage]
And so, there is so much that is not a requirement for embedded. This is why i don't like talking about "Embedded Linux".
I like to think there is no such thing as "Embedded Linux". There is just Linux.
10:00 - 11:00:
So, flash storage. Um..
[Slide 16 - Solid state storage]
We have flash storage in embedded devices but we are increasingly seeing SSDs in laptops, even in servers. So again, despite me seeing earlier I'd like to see proper flash access in embedded devices. We do seem to be moving towards more and more embedded devices even new android devices having the fake disk: an SSD, an SD card and so, essentially, that's the same type of technology from the embedded device all the way up to the big iron.
And so we care about the same things.. You know.. Getting TRIM working, getting the device sleep working.. All the things that allow us to work around the problems of the "pretend to be a disk" approach. We care about that. Everywhere from..
11:00 - 12:00:
[inaudible question from the audience]
Sorry, What was the question?
[question from audience about whether linux kernel is used inside a SSD]
Inside an SSD? No.
It will be a microkernel of some kind. You know.. A tiny RTOS of some kind. Its very.. You could do, but its very unlikely to be a Linux kernel but there are as many answers to that question as there are different SSDs from different vendors of course. But basically, i don't know of any that would be using Linux
Linux is a good fit for many things but that isn't one of the things that linux is great at. In fact, I spent a lot of time saying that in the early days of "Embedded Linux"... "yes we love linux but don't try to use it for this" and that is one of those i think
12:00 - 13:00:
[Slide 17 - Others...]
So Execute In Place, um.. In the days of NOR flash which could be mapped as ROM and the CPU could access the data directly and run code from it directly it was very useful to have execute in place support so that rather than copying your code, your kernel, whatever, from flash into RAM and running it from there you could actually run it in place this meant that on a tiny device you could get away with a lot less RAM and a much faster startup time at a cost of the fact that running from flash will be slower... just because RAM goes faster.
So execute in place was really useful for that.
But in fact it turns out that execute in place and all the horrible tricks we have to play in the VM to map this page here, this physical thing that isn't RAM, map it in as a page cache, a page of a file etc.
13:00 - 14:00:
that's really useful for virtualisation as well so that support which actually eventually gave us execute in place in the kernel did not come from embedded developers it came from IBM working on S390
So that their virtual machines could share underlying disk devices and map. Basically, the host, the hypervisor, would load a page from the disk into RAM and that physical page would then be shared into all the virtual machines using the same execute in place methodology throughout the linux virtual memory system.
So again, its not just embedded.
[inaudible question from audience]
It has to be supported by the hardware, yes.
14:00 - 15:00:
but there is a software issue in that the virtual memory management system in linux has to be able to cope with the fact that we're not just managing standard pages of RAM that can be read and written to and made dirty and then written back to disk which is basically how all the memory management worked with flags on pages to mark them as dirty and needing writeback etc. You had to cope with the fact that actually what I'm doing is here, is when the userspace memory maps a bit of file, I am giving them physical access directly to the original copy which i must not write to. I cannot write to. Its ROM essentially. and so if they are going to try to write to it, we then have to copy it into a page in RAM and do copy on write etc. The complicated part of that was software. The hardware part, while necessary, from our point of view that was simple either its possible or its not.
If its possible then we have to do the software to cope, right? So the complicated part was the software, yeah.
15:00 - 16:00:
From the hardware point of view, in the embedded case of.. You know.. ROM, oh you know execute in place from flash the flash was there, there was a physical address for the flash which was not RAM and all you have to do is map it, but that was the complicated part.
And DMA APIs. So when you are doing.. when using a peripheral to DMA to or from memory.
A lot of the smaller systems had cache coherency issues so that you had to make sure you flushed the caches at the right time.
Basically um it was a big problem for a lot of drivers, a lot of network drivers in particular, wouldn't get it right. They'd just say right here is your address go and do it and would fail when you put that same device into an embedded system.
Um.. and they wouldn't use the DMA API properly.
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but we need them to because.. you know.. bigger systems have an I/O MMU now so if you just pick a physical address from the ether and give it to you device it won't work. So now we are seeing all of the drivers being fixed to use the DMA API properly so that they can work with.. you know.. current Intel/AMD systems Um.. with I/O MMU and this means those same drivers are fixed for the embedded use case where we need to use the same API for different reasons. So its just another case. I can't think of many things which really are embedded specific.
[Slide 18 - We are not so special!]
We are not that special. I don't like talking about "Embedded Linux".
I am one of the "Embedded Linux" maintainers for my sins but only under protest because Andrew Morton kind of insisted on there being somebody to do that. and you know most of what I do in that role which is very very little is to say this is not embedded this is.. You know.. This is generic.
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[Slide 19 - Community impressions]
So, to a certain extent as I said earlier people think of "Embedded Linux", the embedded linux um community, the mainstream kernel development/linux development thinks of Enterprise and Embedded in much the same way as just that stuff we don't want to have to think about.
They like to think of embedded/embedded developers as working with ancient code that nobody cares about anymore. Not working with upstream. Doing their own thing going off into the weeds not contributing their code back upstream. Doing stuff as a one off. You know.. Making some hack not attempting to get it upstream and just living with it and having a lot of pain when later they need to do a product refresh, a new product, update to a later kernel and none of the changes they've made are applicable anymore - they all have to be redone.
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But I don't like that perception and I'm pleased to see that it has starting to change. We no longer see.. You know.. many people who think of "Embedded Linux" as irrelevant to the general case. I think it is accepted to be a lot more relevant now.
[Slide 21 - Community impressions]
So.. You know.. We must prove them wrong.
I think we are doing a fairly good job of proving them wrong.
[Slide 22 - "Embedded" success stories]
Um.. We have some success stories. All this stuff works. Um.. and you know it shows the cross over between embedded development and what everybody else wants.
I've talked about some of those
Suspend to RAM is another important one. Started to become very important to people with laptops/Linux laptops only a few years ago. Before that desktop linux/laptop linux nobody ever cared or nobody ever at least had the expectation that it might work they just tolerated the fact that you could never suspend
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Um. And Squashfs which.. you know.. had a very.. um.. a lot of use in the embedded space where storage is tight but it also sees a lot of use on Linux distribution install CDs that kind of thing where again you need to pack a lot of data into a small space. Um.. Its just another example.
[Slide 23 - Working with the community]
So, I talked about.. You know.. We need to prove them wrong. We need to work better with the community. Um.. and these are some of the ways to do that you find the generic points of interest, look for those.. that cross over as i've been pointing out. Show why other people would be interested in what you are doing. Show that it is not just something esoteric that nobody but you would care about. Show your code show your working. Publish git trees. Um..
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sane ones that people can look at.. not just a git tree for your product with every one of the dozens of.. you know.. bits of kernel development that you might be working on but a separate tree for each driver perhaps, for each topic of development so that somebody who has an interest in what you are doing, somebody that you are trying to get engaged with what you are doing, to see how it is relevant to them make it so they can see it easily its not just in amongst a pile of crap that isn't relevant to them and if they are interested in one topic let them see that and send the patches out for review
And most importantly respond to the feedback that you get.. Some of it is a little unhelpful, there is the whitespace police who will um nitpick the most stupid things and ignore the blatant actual coding errors.. locking errors because they don't quite understand that they can understand the white space and they can tell you about that but.. yeah.. you have to take their feedback with a pinch of salt sometimes but respond to the feedback
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Um.. and the best way to shut the whitespace police up is not to get it wrong in the first place.. There is actually.. I'll talk about that in a little bit in a minute but.. yeah.. there are a lot of people who seem to post some patches disappear for 3 months, come back again for the next kernel release, want to get their patches merged and post the same patches again without having fixed any of the problems that were pointed out last time and that's a very quick way to get onto email blacklists to people or even just mental blacklists with people saying "i'm not going to read that patch again and i know its the same as last time". so, really, work with the maintainers be part of the community, don't go off and do stuff in isolation if at all possible. Um.. Staying close to upstream Um.. It has its pros and cons. Upstream moves fast and it is hard to be on that treadmill
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but it is in general worth it to stay close and to basically minimise your delta between what is in Linus' git tree at any moment and what you are shipping in your product. Every time.. you know.. I work on something my viewpoint is getting it to Linus as quickly as possible so that it is not my problem anymore. So that I can just download tomorrow's 3.7 release and it should work. Yes, I have to do the QA and I might not actually update but at least I know that when I do a product revision, when I do a new product, which is.. you know.. supercedes the product I am working on now I should be able to start from a mainline kernel with no patches I shouldn't have to spend weeks forward-porting stuff I did months ago that no longer applies, no longer works, because somebody else has made changes in that area.
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[Slide 24 - Staying close to upstream]
so, being close to upstream really does make it easier for new products and fixes so if somebody finds bugs in code that you're using but perhaps you haven't been dealing with it much. Those fixes are a whole lot easier. I appreciate there are some insane people who spend a lot of time backporting code to earlier kernels, but they still tell you should update if you can.
Right? Um.. It makes it a lot easier to take in external contributions. So, if somebody else is doing some work that you can use, they're likely to be working on a newer kernel as well so the closer you are the easier it is to use other peoples work, to collaborate with people and the more likely people are to review and test your code. It just makes life so much easier.
Yes. um. There is a cost inherent in writing code that can go upstream.
It is harder.
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It can, if you're not used to it especially, take more time. If you post code that doesn't pass muster in the first place and you have to review it and go through all of the feedback. Um.. then, yes that can be hard. And then the second point there [gestures to second Costs bullet] that it is a fast moving target and you're having to do these iterations of your own code perhaps the kernel has moved on by the time you've got your own house in order.
So, that's hard and you may have NDAs. You may have problems with information about your product leaking because you are working on certain kernel features, you might have marketing reasons essentially why you might not be able to release code sooner.
So, there are some costs. But I think the biggest one there is if you get it right the first time. It shouldn't take any longer. It should only be a benefit and if you get it right the first time, then you should be able to release it later.
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Now, Android is often a bad example of many things but they are getting better. They're doing.. They're getting there.. they are using current kernels they are relatively aggressive in updating to new kernels and getting their code merged.
There is still a fair amount of stuff outstanding but I think.. I think with a stock 3.6 kernel you can run Android user space. Am I right in that? I think so.
They have finally basically got everything at least in the staging tree and they are getting there.
[Slide 25 - Tips on contributing code]
So.. This is.. Yeah.. I've talked about this. Find parallel requirements.
Avoid hacking around problems. One of the things that a lot of people in the embedded space do, if they come from working on another operating system.. um.. where they don't have as much visibility into the core OS
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so the assumption is.. the first thing they think to do is to work around the problem in their own driver so rather than going fixing the infrastructure so that it supports your feature properly and generically you'll do some local hack. Don't do that. Um.. Its a really bad idea to do that kind of thing. It will get your code rejected. We saw a lot of this, when i was working on the OLPC with wireless mesh networks, and this had been done by Marvell as a wireless driver with some extra mesh support bolted onto the side with special IOCTls - which was the wrong way to do it. A lot of the work we had to do on that driver, aside from just fixing the code, was um defining a generic API for some of the mesh functionality and putting that into the core and then exposing it through the driver in a sane way rather than having it as a driver specific hack.
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Another thing people often get wrong is not caring about locking. Now this is perhaps less true these days where we have rt-preempt kernels but in the days where people would run embedded devices on a uniprocessor system where spinlocks were a complete no operation you would see a lot of locking bugs in drivers that um would be picked up in review and just mean you have to do more work to go and fix that if you didn't get it right in the first place.
The coding style, i talked about the white space police um.. There is some merit in what they do. If you imagine reading a book and every time you turn a page the new page is in a slightly different font with slightly different layout and borders, that's going to make it slower for you to read. Every time you turn a page your eyes, your brain is going to have to adjust to reading the new style and it makes it harder to understand.
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And that's why people care about stuff that might just seem like gratitous pedantry. Um.. I might suggest that perhaps they don't need about.. to care quite as much as they do but there is some merit
[Slide 34 - Questions?]
This wasn't supposed to be.. This isn't even the right presentation! Joy.
I had some more slides with details of some of the white space, coding style errors.. Um.. [pauses] Bear with me.. Sorry.
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Sorry. The perils from not presenting from my own laptop.
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Okay. I give up.. I was going to talk.. I was going to show, it doesn't work quite so well in voice, Um.. some of the problems that we get with erm um patch submissions.
There are a lot of things that um that you should do before sending a patch that are just cosmetic that you have absolutely no excuse for getting wrong. Um.. and i can show you off line an example but i was going to put it up on the screen and say can you see the ten errors in this slide and then i was going to show you the answers and they were such things as just white space in the wrong place but patches get mangled by your email client and introduce word wraps.
When you send a patch, first send it to yourself.. well actually before you send it to yourself, read it. Patches are human readable, you can look at it, you can understand it. You should understand it.
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But.. You know.. Unified diff patch is very easy to read. It has lines that start with a space, which are lines of context what is there both before and after your change. Lines that start with a minus sign, that are lines that get removed by the patch. Lines that start with a plus are lines which get added which are often very similar to the line that gets removed. Um.. You should be able to read that. You should be able to understand it. You should be able to look and see superfluous changes. Often you see patches with a whole bunch of completely gratuitous changes that should not be there so adding blank lines adding spaces or whatever in the middle of a line that hasn't otherwise changed, its a mess. It makes the patch hard to read. If you send a patch like that you have obviously not even read your own email before hitting send. Why would you expect people to take you seriously? So, first read your email before you send it
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Then send it to yourself. Save the resulting email to a file. Then attempt to apply that as a patch. If it doesn't work, go back to step 1 Work out why. If you are using Exchange and its converted all tabs to spaces. Work out if you are sending HTML. If its word wrapped, make it stop and then, there are a bunch of other things about just abiding by the coding style of the kernel so that people can understand and can read it naturally and it comes straight into their brain without them having to interpret what they see in front of their eyes because that's the reason for the coding style rules its to make stuff easy to read for the people who spend all day reading it and don't want to try to interpret different styles of code um so there are a few things along those lines i think i will try to share the rest of the slides off line if people are interested
So, um, do we have any questions?
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[inaudible question from audience]
[inaudible question from audience: continued]
Yes, very true. Use git send email that works nicely, but again make sure you send it to yourself first. um.. even with git send email its useful to read through the patches before you send them
so, yeah, that's a good trick. git send email
[inaudible question from audience]
No, I didn't.
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I haven't worked on many things like that thankfully. um. I know Karen Sandler of Gnome Foundation has been talking recently about her pacemaker and that's a very interesting presentation if you get a chance to see that. um, but no I've.. I haven't even heard particular horror stories of where JFFS2 is being used that would scare me. So, no, nothing interesting like that I'm afraid.
Ok. Thank you.


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